The Handbook of Informal Language Learning

Notes on Contributors

Panagiotis Arvanitis is Associate Professor at the Faculty of French Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in the field of multimedia databases, information and communication technologies, and new ICT learning environments. He has published several papers on new ICT learning environments, and the use of multimedia databases and hypermedia tools in language teaching and learning. He is interested in online language learning, computer‐supported collaborative language learning, web technologies, virtual and augmented learning environments, mobile language learning tools, and game‐based learning. He is especially interested in how language instructors can utilize web technologies to promote student collaboration and knowledge construction in both online and offline settings.

Alice Chik is Senior Lecturer in Educational Studies and coordinator of the Macquarie University Multilingualism Research Group, Australia. Her research examines languages learning in digital environments. She is especially interested in exploring how language learners construct and direct their autonomous learning in informal contexts. Her recent co‐edited works include Autonomy in Language Learning and Teaching (2018) and Multilingual Sydney (2019).

Kiel Christianson is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois, USA, and Director of the EdPsych Psycholinguistics Lab (Beckman Institute). He also directs the Second Language Acquisition and ...